how the media rewrites what really happens-Doctors w/o borders incident
Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
https://fair.org/home/media-are-blam...is-covered-up/
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald (Intercept, 10/3/15) pointed out the hypocrisy of the US warning about civilian casualties of Russian airstrikes while it bombs scores of doctors and patients in Afghanistan, a country it has militarily occupied for close to 15 years.
When Russia denies killing civilians in its airstrikes on Syria, US media are suddenly skeptical and thorough; yet when the US government makes the same claims, journalists just recycle its press releases.
Is the job of the media to just uncritically report what favored governments say? Or is it supposed to examine the truth of official claims? If it is supposed to be the latter, US media have abysmally failed in their duties in reporting on the US bombing of MSF’s Kunduz hospital.
Re: how the media rewrites what really happens-Doctors w/o borders incident
I no longer look for US media for the truth of reporting anything; they are bought and paid for.
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Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
https://fair.org/home/media-are-blam...is-covered-up/
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald (Intercept, 10/3/15) pointed out the hypocrisy of the US warning about civilian casualties of Russian airstrikes while it bombs scores of doctors and patients in Afghanistan, a country it has militarily occupied for close to 15 years.
When Russia denies killing civilians in its airstrikes on Syria, US media are suddenly skeptical and thorough; yet when the US government makes the same claims, journalists just recycle its press releases.
Is the job of the media to just uncritically report what favored governments say? Or is it supposed to examine the truth of official claims? If it is supposed to be the latter, US media have abysmally failed in their duties in reporting on the US bombing of MSF’s Kunduz hospital.
Re: how the media rewrites what really happens-Doctors w/o borders incident
And here's an article explaining Why...
Doctors Without Borders came out against TPP.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/...thout-borders/
